 | Charles Churchill, William Tooke - 1844 - 380 pages
...mind to be as coolly indolent about our famous ghost in Cock Lane. I could send you volumes on it ; and I believe if I were to stay a little, I might send its life dedicated to my Lord D by the Ordinary of Newgate, its two great patrons. A drunken parish clerk set it on foot out of revenge,... | |
 | Charles Wyllys Elliott - Apparitions - 1852 - 304 pages
...ghost — he went and he came away ; and thus he wrote on the 2d February, 1762, to George Montagu.* "A drunken parish clerk set it on foot out of revenge...and the whole town of London think of nothing else I went to hear it, for it is not an apparition, but an audition [he elsewhere calls it the ghost of... | |
 | John Timbs - London (England) - 1865 - 338 pages
...give it their benediction ; and all the world, whether believers or infidels, go to hear it." Again: "I could send you volumes on the ghost, and I believe,...the Methodists have adopted it, and the whole town think of nothing else. " I went to hear it," says Walpole, " for it is not an apparition, but an audition.... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - American letters - 1866 - 540 pages
...should one steal half an hour from one's amusements to tell a story to a friend in another island ? I could send you volumes on the ghost, and I believe,...nothing else. Elizabeth Canning and the Rabbit- woman were modest impostors in comparison of this, which goes on without saving the least appearances. The... | |
 | James Philemon Holcombe - English letters - 1866 - 548 pages
...should one steal half an hour from one's amusements to tell a story to a friend in another island ? I could send you volumes on the ghost, and I believe,...London think of nothing else. Elizabeth Canning and the Rabbit-woman were modest impostors in comparison of this, which goes on without saving the least appearances.... | |
 | John Timbs - London (England) - 1872 - 540 pages
...give it their benediction ; and all the world, whether believers or infidels, go to hear it." Again: " I could send you volumes on the ghost, and I believe,...the Methodists have adopted it, and the whole town think of nothing else. " I went to hear it," says Walpole, " for it is not an apparition, but an audition.... | |
 | Cassell, ltd - 1876 - 466 pages
...should one steal half an hour from one's amusements to tell a story to a friend in another island P ke aptness to corrupt the mind, that single endeavour...necessitated to leave others round about wide open. methodista have adopted it, and the whole town of London think of nothing else. Elizabeth Canning and... | |
 | Charles Churchill, Thomas Parnell, Thomas Tickell - 1880 - 724 pages
...coolly indolent about our famous ghost in Cock Lane. I could send you volumes on it; and I believe *f I were to stay a little, I might send its life dedicated to my Lord D by the Ordinary of Newgate, its two great patrons. A drunken parish clerk set it on foot out of revenge,... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1884 - 554 pages
...Macnaughton, and I have a great mind to be as coolly indolent about our famous Ghost in Cock Lane. . . . I could send you volumes on the ghost, and I believe,...by the Ordinary of Newgate, its two great patrons. ... I went to hear it, for it is not an apparition, but an audition. We set out from the Opera, changing... | |
 | Oliver Goldsmith - 1885 - 494 pages
...Maenaughton, and I have a great mind to be as coolly indolent about our famous Ghost in Cock Lane. . . . I could send you volumes on the ghost, and I believe,...by the Ordinary of Newgate, its two great patrons. . . . I went to hear it, for it is not an apparition, but an audition. We set out from the Opera, changing... | |
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I could send you volumes on the ghost, and I believe if I were to stay a little, I might send its life, dedicated to my lord Dartmouth, by the ordinary of Newgate, its two great patrons. A drunken parish clerk set it on foot out of revenge, the methodists... 
